The following is a list of general references I have used to prepare this website, especially for the photo gallery. I would also like to thank Rasmus Boegh for his assistance in correcting some of my mistakes and helping me identify the off photo. BirdLife International Data Zone [web application]. BirdLife International, 2006-2007. Available from: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone Castro, Isabel and Antonia Phillips. A Guide to the Birds of the Galápagos Islands. Helm, 1996 Clements, James F. Birds of the World. A Checklist. Fifth Edition. Ibis Publishing, 2000. Erize, Francisco, Jorge R. Rodriguez Mata, and Maurice Rumboll. Birds of South America, Non-Passerines: Rheas to Woodpeckers. Princeton, 2006. Fjeldsâ, Jon and N. Krabbe. Birds of the High Andes: A Manual to the Birds of the Temperate Zone of the Andes and Patagonia, South America. Apollo, 1990 Garrigues, Richard. The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide. Cornell University Press, 2007 Harrison, Peter. Seabirds. An Identification Guide. Revised edition. Houghton Mifflin, 1985 Hilty, Steven L. Birds of Venezuela. Second edition. Princeton University Press, 2003 Hilty, Steven L. and W.L. Brown. A Guide to the Birds of Colombia. Princeton, 1986 Howell, Steve N.G. and Sophie Webb. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. Oxford University Press, 1994 del Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. & Sargatal, J. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 4. Sandgrouse to Cuckoos. Lynx Editions, 1997 del Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. & Sargatal, J. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Lynx Editions, 1999 del Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. & Sargatal, J. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Mousebirds to Hornbills. Lynx Editions, 2001 del Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. & Sargatal, J. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 7. Jacamars to Woodpeckers. Lynx Editions, 2002 del Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Broadbills to Tapaculos. Lynx Editions, 2003 del Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cotingas to Pipits and Wagtails. Lynx Editions, 2004 InfoNatura: Animals and Ecosystems of Latin America [web application]. Version 5.0. NatureServe, 2006-2007. Available from: http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura Jaramillo, Alvaro. Birds of Chile. Princeton, 2003 Ridgely, Robert and Paul Greenfield. The Birds of Ecuador. Volume I: Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy. Cornell, 2001 Ridgely, Robert and Paul Greenfield. The Birds of Ecuador. Volume II: Field Guide. Cornell, 2001 Ridgely, Robert S. and Guy Tudor. The Birds of South America. Volume I: The Oscine Passerines. University of Texas Press, 1989 Ridgely, Robert S. and Guy Tudor. The Birds of South America. Volume II: The Suboscine Passerines. University of Texas Press, 1994 Ridgely, Robert S. and John A. Gwynne. A Guide to the Birds of Panama, with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, & Honduras. Second Edition. Princeton, 1989 Schulenberg, Thomas S., Douglas F. Stotz, Daniel F. Lane, John P. O'Neill, and Theodore A. Parker III. Birds of Peru. Princeton Field Guides, 2007 Stiles, F. Gary & Alexander F. Skutch. A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica. Cornell, 1989 Return to photo gallery Website design and all photos copyright Nick Athanas For questions, comments, or photograph licensing info, please email